Senior Kafka Platform Engineer | AWS & Kubernetes

Avance Consulting; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Avance Consulting is seeking a Senior Kafka Administrator/Developer in Sydney to design, build and operate enterprise Kafka and event-streaming platforms on AWS and Kubernetes. You will lead production support, automate repeatable tasks and drive platform governance.

The role requires hands-on Kafka administration, integration development and cloud-native operations, collaborating with security, operations and application teams to deliver reliable, scalable event-driven solutions.

Qualifications

• The role requires hands-on Kafka administration and production support.
• Strong familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes and EKS is expected.
• Experience designing and delivering event-driven architectures with Java/Spring Boot/Python.
• Proven ability to lead platform governance, upgrades and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support Kafka brokers, topics and partitions, including MirrorMaker.
• Design and develop Kafka producers, consumers and integration services using Java/Spring Boot/Python.
• Deploy, operate and improve Kafka on Kubernetes and Amazon EKS using Helm and CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage platform reliability, capacity, patching, backup and lifecycle activities.
• Implement monitoring, security controls (TLS, authentication, ACLs) and observability.
• Guide application teams on topic design, partitioning, schema evolution and retries.

Skills

Kafka administration

Confluent Platform

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Java

Spring Boot

Python

Kubernetes

Amazon EKS

Docker

CI/CD

GitOps

Terraform

CloudFormation

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Linux troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Argo CD

Docker

Helm

Git

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Avance Consulting is seeking a Senior Kafka Administrator/Developer in Sydney to design, build and operate enterprise Kafka and event-streaming platforms on AWS and Kubernetes. You will lead production support, automate repeatable tasks and drive platform governance.

The role requires hands-on Kafka administration, integration development and cloud-native operations, collaborating with security, operations and application teams to deliver reliable, scalable event-driven solutions.